Texturing
Below are some of the textures that I created for Painted Dreams. They are a mixture of digital creations and photo manipulations for the diffuse, specular, bump and displacement maps. Adobe Photoshop was the primary application used.
Note: Please click on the textures to see their full detail, though they have been scaled down from their orginal creation size.
Sky
Diffues
The sky texture originally started out as several photos of white puffy clouds which were then digital modified using Photoshop to enhance their interest and also provide a clean background gradient. The texture seamlessly wraps on the horizontal plane so it could be mapped to a sphere.
Grass
Diffues
The grass texture started out as a singular photo of a grassy lawn which was then modified so it can be titled horizontally and vertically. The colours were also enhanced.
Eye
Diffues
The eye texture is a digital creation using Photoshop. The specular highlight was added to the diffuse map to simplify the realism of the eye when animating Sam (the character which the eye texture was applied to).
Hair
The hair texture is a digital airbrush painting created using Photoshop. So the hair model would look detailed when rendered, a displacement map was also created to provide the extra dimension.
Face
The face texture is a digital creation using Photoshop.
Skin
The skin texture was based on the face texture before face details were added.
Shirt
The shirt texture is a photo manipulation.
Shorts
The shorts texture is a photo manipulation.
Painting
Diffues
The painting texture originally started out as a rendered frame from the nature setting. This frame was then flattered to look like a painted image. Once the base image was created, areas of it were rubbed out and painted over with solid colours to make it appear like the image was being painted by Sam.
Wall
The wall texture is an enhanced photo of a plaster wall which was modified so it could seamlessly tile horizontally and vertically.
Paint Brush
Diffues
The paint brush texture is a digital creation using Photoshop.
Tree Leaf
Diffues
The tree leaf texture is a photo of a leaf cut out from its background. Along with the diffuse texture map a transparency map was also made to shape the square leaf polygons into a leaf structure.
Tree Bark
Diffues
The tree bark texture was originally a photo which was enhanced to provide a seamless texture that could be mapped onto the trunk of the growing tree in Painted Dreams.